The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed worried that allowing a bad prosecutor to be sued by a wrongfully convicted person might chill other prosecutions _ even if they're doing their jobs correctly and honestly.
In the case before the court, two former Pottawattamie County, Iowa, prosecutors were sued by the men they had convicted of first-degree murder. But a later investigation found that the lawyers never disclosed at trial that another, more likely, suspect had been identified by witnesses and police.
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